SLICC Feedback and Assessment

How are SLICCs Assessed?

Undertaking a SLICC project gives you a unique experience to be in charge of your own learning process, dictating not only the timeline of your project, but also setting your own success markers.

For many students who are new to the SLICC framework, this raises an important question, how am I assessed?

Assessing self-directed learning has been a challenge amongst educational researchers, who argue that there is yet to be one correct way to build assessment into SDL courses. Because there is inherent flexibility within a SLICC, as each instructor will take their own approach to assessment.

To date, SLICC courses at the University of Waterloo have include a few different approaches:

SLICC Assessment Examples

The Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) reflective experiential learning and assessment framework was established at the University of Edinburgh and has been adapted, with permission, to the University of Waterloo’s context. Resources are provided with a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence. Comprehensive information on SLICCs can be found at https://www.ed.ac.uk/sliccs/.

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